Lydia English Female Seminary (Colonial Apartments) Front Facade

ID: 5770 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of DC Preservation League ~ Creator: Image Taken by Zachary Burt ~ Date: January 2024

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This image shows the front façade of the former seminary. The building showcases the Federal style characteristic of symmetry, as well as the decorative half-circle fanlights.

This file appears in: Lydia English Female Seminary (Colonial Apartments): The long-standing influence of the affluent Lydia English Seminary School is seen in these Georgetown apartments.

Lydia English Female Seminary (Colonial Apartments): The long-standing influence of the affluent Lydia English Seminary School is seen in these Georgetown apartments.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Built in the 1820s, this large Federal style complex would become Lydia English’s Female Seminary, a school for “fashionable” women. In 1861, during the Civil War, it would be commandeered and…